Word: pencilers
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...president of the United Nations General Assembly walked serenely to the dais, fussed through her handbag for her glasses and a pencil, then spoke to the hall full of delegates in a soft, lilting voice. "I regard your choice," she said, "as a tribute to my country...
...developed a wrist radio with a receiving range of 40 miles. A wire (hidden under the wearer's sleeve) connects the radio with an amplifier that looks like a hearing aid. The radio parts are minuscule -the mercury battery is not much larger than the point of a pencil, and the whole mechanism weighs 2 ⅝oz. Name of the Army's wrist radio: the Dick Tracy...
...Ritz. Before going on to hunt elephants in Africa, Hemingway hoped to do some fishing in the Pyrenees, told a French reporter he was traveling light with two fishing rods, two revolvers and no typewriter. "I started my writing career with a typewriter," he said. "Today I use a pencil...
...Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
...Seuss (real name: Theodor Seuss Geisel) admits he had an ax to grind in 5,000 Fingers: as a child, he took piano lessons "from a man who rapped my knuckles with a pencil whenever I made a mistake ... I made up my mind I would finally get even with that man. It took me 43 years to catch up with him. He became the Terwilliker of the movie...